Former Head of Urban Environment, Sustainability and Climate Change at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and visiting researcher at University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and ETH Zurich, he is currently associate professor at Polytechnic of Turin and honorary fellow at University of Birmingham. Luca’s educational path covers Engineering, Architecture-Science of Cities, Economic Evaluations (Polytechnic of Turin), Urbanism (University of Campinas), Anthropology (University of Oxford), with two degrees summa cum laude, a PhD and a Post-PhD. He worked in projects for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Commission, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and for a Grand Challenges Small Grant (Future Urban Growth Lab) from University College London. His 11-year academic employment across continents, subjects, teams, and roles, gave him the privilege - despite temporally and personally costly - to build up an interdisciplinary touch in his work, thinking and teaching. He lived 10 years across Ireland, France, Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Scotland, Uruguay, England, experiencing an enriching variety of social, physical and working environments. Research interests: Future Cities, Urban Forms, Evaluations, Urban Evolutionary Anthropology https://sites.google.com/view/lucadacci/future-cities